Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 11:03:58 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>,
        "Jin, Yao" <yao.jin@linux.intel.com>, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
        Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, acme@kernel.org,
        jolsa@kernel.org, kan.liang@intel.com,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
        open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@ocallahan.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf/core: generate overflow signal when samples are
 dropped (WAS: Re: [REGRESSION] perf/core: PMU interrupts dropped if we
 entered the kernel in the "skid" region)
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* Kyle Huey <me@kylehuey.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 3:21 AM, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> wrote:
> >> Should any of those be moved into the "should be dropped" pile?
> >
> > Why not be conservative and clear every sample you're not sure about?
> >
> > We'd appreciate a fix sooner rather than later here, since rr is
> > currently broken on every stable Linux kernel and our attempts to
> > implement a workaround have failed.
> >
> > (We have separate "interrupt" and "measure" counters, and I thought we
> > might work around this regression by programming the "interrupt"
> > counter to count kernel events as well as user events (interrupting
> > early is OK), but that caused our (completely separate) "measure"
> > counter to report off-by-one results (!), which seems to be a
> > different bug present on a range of older kernels.)
> 
> This seems to have stalled out here unfortunately.
> 
> Can we get a consensus (from ingo or peterz?) on Mark's question?  Or,
> alternatively, can we move the patch at the top of this thread forward
> on the stable branches until we do reach an answer to that question?
> 
> We've abandoned hope of working around this problem in rr and are
> currently broken for all of our users with an up-to-date kernel, so
> the situation for us is rather dire at the moment I'm afraid.

Sorry about that - I've queued up a revert for the original commit and will send 
the fix to Linus later today. I've added a -stable tag as well so it can be 
forwarded to Greg the moment it hits upstream.

We should do the original fix as well, but in a version that does not skip the 
sample but zeroes out the RIP and registers (or sets them all to -1LL) - and also 
covers other possible places where skid-RIP is exposed, such as LBR.

Thanks,

	Ingo